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Department of the Interior and Local Government CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

1st Semester, FY 2014 Narrative Report

*LGRRC REPORT IS ON PAGE 17

I. INTRODUCTION

For the 1st semester of FY 2014, activities of DILG-CAR were all geared towards the implementation of the priority programs, projects and activities of the Department.

II. MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS ON THE NATIONAL PROJECTS FOR REGIONAL IMPLEMENTATION

OUTCOME: BUSINESS FRIENDLY AND COMPETITIVE LGUS

Organization of LEIPO/LEDIP Team/LEDIP Office

All six provinces of CAR, two cities and 71 of its 75 municipalities, including the

five target municipalities of the Province of Ifugao, have designated their LEIPO. In

addition, the provinces of Kalinga and Mt. Province, and 30 municipalities from the

different provinces have organized their LEDIP Team. Five of the six provinces, one city

and 47 municipalities have organized their LEDIP Office. The minimum requirement is

the designation of LEIPO.

P/C/M With LEIPO With LEDIP TEAM

With LEDIP Office

Abra : P M

1 25

___ 7

1 17

Apayao : P M

1 7

___ ___

1 7

Baguio City 1 ___ ___

Benguet: P M

1 11

___ 3

___ 1

Ifugao : P M

1 11

___ 3

1 11

Kalinga : P C

M

1 1 7

1 ___

5

1 1 7

Mt. Province: P M

1 10

1 2

1 4

TOTAL: P 6 2 5

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C M

2 71

0 30

1 27

Updating of CDP, Local Revenue Code, LIIC and Schedule of Market Value

In addition, the target municipalities of Banaue, Alfonso Lista, Lagawe, Lamut and

Kiangan in Ifugao Province have updated their CDP. Except Lamut, the above

municipalities have also updated their Local Revenue Code, with Lagawe having updated

LIIC. The municipalities of Lagawe and Banaue have updated Schedule of Market Value.

Above target accomplishments for the CDP updating is five municipalities of

Ifugao.

Representatives of the Municipalities of Banaue and Alfonso Lista attended the

Consultative Dialogue and Technical Assistance on LIIC last June 24-26, 2014 which was

conducted by BLGD and LGA at LGA-TC, Los Baños.

Streamlining of BPLS

Twenty of the 21 target municipalities under this program have successfully

streamlined their BPLS. The remaining municipality of Tanudan, Kalinga is targeted for

the 2nd semester.

Regulatory Simplification for LGUs ( to include Streamlining of Building/Construction

and Occupancy Permitting System)

Target cities of Baguio and Tabuk, and

municipalities of Kabugao, Apayao and La

Trinidad, Benguet have successfully launched

their RS4LGUs. On March 24, 2014 the,

Municipal Government of La Trinidad has

launched their RS4LGUs which was attended

by USEC Austere Panadero and LGA Executive

Director Marivel Sacendoncillo. Also, the two

DILG Officials are signatories to the

Memorandum of Agreement.

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Tabuk City, Kalinga also launched their

RS4LGUs last June 25, 2014.

Municipal Government of

Kabugao, Apayao has successfully

streamlined their Building/Construction

and Occupancy Permitting System. The

Enhanced BPLS/RS4LGUs was launched

last June 24, 2014 at Kabugao.

Notable Accomplishments

DILG-Mt. Province has conducted the BPLS Compliance and E-readiness survey to

all its ten (10) municipalities. Also, they have conducted BPLS Forum on March 21,

2014.

DILG-Baguio City Field Office has provided technical assistance to the City on the

identification of collaborative activities to enhance LGU business-friendly image.

Participation to the ICT Innovations Forum: Key to Accelerating Local Governments’

Competitiveness held June 18, 2014 at Intercontinental Hotel, Makati City.

Special Local Roads Fund (SLRF)

Apayao, Benguet and Mt. Province and Tabuk City are beneficiaries of the SLRF

2013 which were funded in 2014, and Benguet Province was also beneficiary of the SLRF

Ribbon Cutting by RD John

Castaneda assisted by ARD

Usman of DTI-CAR and Hon.

Mayor Ferdinand Tubban.

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2012. All four projects were completed firsts quarter of 2014. Below is the SLRF 2013

project descriptions:

APPROVED CY 2013 SLRF (SARO-BMB-A-14-003279)

OUTCOME: ENVIRONMENT PROTECTIVE, CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTIVE & DISASTER

RESILIENT LGUS

Enhancing LGU Capacity on Disaster Risk Reduction/ Climate Change Adaptation and

Mitigation

Assessment

All six provinces, two cities and 75 municipalities of CAR have undergone the Disaster

Preparedness Audit and Environment Compliance Audit as part of the Seal of Good Local

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Governance. Results of which are being encoded and uploaded to the LGPMS-SGLG

website.

Capacity Enhancement

The Regional Focal Person has just undergone the ToT on Vulnerability Assessment

last June 9-12 at LGATC, Los Baños.

A total of 14 municipalities and one city from Kalinga and Apayao provinces -- 53

participants, exceeding the target 45 participants, from seven municipalities and one

city from Kalinga and seven municipalities from Apayao have undergone the GIS

Training conducted by DILG-CAR last April 21-25, 2014 in Baguio City.

Last May 19-22, Tinglayan,Kalinga requested the conduct of QGIS Training since they

missed the training conducted by DILG-CAR earlier. Aside from the technical personnel

from the Planning and Development Office, Engineering office, Disaster Risk Reduction

and Management Office, and Local

Government Operations Officers of

Tinglayan attending this training,

heads/staff from all the other

municipal offices and that of the

attached agencies like the PNP, BFP

and DENR also participated bringing

the total participants to 29, almost

double the 15 target participants.

Participants train hands-on on GPS. The participants and trainers with

Mayor Johnny D. Maymaya Sr. (front

row center)

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Continuing Monitoring of DRR/CCA Related Laws and Policies

Below is the percentage of compliance to DRR/CCA Related Laws and Policies of

local governments in the region:

Deliverables LGUs Number Percentage

Calamity Response Protocols

Establishment of Operation Center

Province City

Municipalities

6 2

75

100 100 100

Organization of Emergency Response Rescue & Medical Teams

Province City

Municipalities

6 2

75

100 100 100

Identification of Evacuation Centers

Province City

Municipalities

6 2

75

100 100 100

Institutionalization of Warning and Alarm Systems

Province City

Municipalities

6 2

75

100 100 100

DRR Act Organized DRRM Council Province

City Municipalities

6 2

75

100 100 100

Establishment of DRRM Office Province 3 50 Designated DRRM Officer Province

City Municipalities

6 2

75

100 100 100

Formulated DRRM Plan Province City

Municipalities

6 2

67

100 100

89.34

Note: Please refer to statistical report since many of the above have been delivered earlier.)

Below is the percentage of compliance of barangays to a number of deliverables

required by the Office.

Deliverables Number Percentage

Barangays with

CBDRRM Plan 1,175 100

Contingency Plan 726 61.78 Barangay Readiness Profile 1,175 100

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Organized CBDRRM Structure 1,175 100

Barangays provided with IEC (Family Guide to Action) materials

6 2

75

100 100 100

All 1,175 barangays of CAR were provided with the Family Guide to Action in

2013. Also, many barangays have also complied with the above deliverables in 2013. To

date, 449 barangays have yet to craft their contingency plans.

For this Outcome Area, several related activities were conducted at the regional

level. These are

1. Training on GIS for Climate Change & Disaster Risk & Vulnerability Reduction

2. Iba Na Ang Panahon (INAP) Science for Safer Communities

3. Knowledge Exchange on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

4. Rapid Damage and Needs Analysis (RDANA)

DRRM Provincial summits were also conducted in all the provinces spearheaded

by OCD in collaboration with DILG, DOST, DSWD and other members of the DRRMCs

from April to June 2014. Participants to these summits were local chief executives,

members of DRRM council, media, CSOs and other stakeholders.

Other provincial activities include BDRRM planning and Training on Mountain

Search and Rescue.

OUTCOME: SOCIALLY-PROTECTIVE AND SAFE LGUS

Pillar 1: Support to the Establishment of Peace Foundations through Policy Reforms

and Development

Regional Campaign on INAP:

Science for Safer

Communities held at

Albergo Hotel, Baguio City

last May 8-9, 2014

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Setting-up of Mediation and Healing Mechanisms

Training on the Setting-Up of Local Healing and Mediation Mechanisms was held

on June 26-27, 2014 at La Breza Hotel, Quezon City and was attended by participants

from the municipalities of Manabo, Abra; Pudtol, Apayao;, Kibungan, Benguet; Asipulo

and Tinoc, Ifugao; and and Pasil, Kalinga. Participants to this Training were LCEs; SB

Chairperson of Peace and Order Committee; MSWDO; Private Sector sitting in the Local

Peace and Order Committee or IP Representatives

Earlier in January 28, DILG-CAR Regional Office led a meeting at Home Stay Diner,

Sagada Mt. Province to discuss the project Setting Up of Mediation and Healing

Mechanisms in Conflict-Affected Areas (CAAs). This project generally aims to help LGUs

which belong to the CAAs to set up functional mediation and healing mechanisms in

their localities to sustain the gains of previous peace and development efforts including

those which have resulted to peace agreements. The meeting resulted in the following:

1. Identification of existing mediation and healing mechanisms in the LGUs or in

the community;

2. From what were identified, the LGU distinguished what works and what does

not work;

3. Provided the persons

and offices involved in

mediation and healing

at the local level, and

4. Data gathered was

utilized and submitted

to LGA for inclusion in

designing the

framework and

training program for

mediation and

healing.

Monitoring the Functionality of Lupons and BHRACS

DILG-CAR personnel with MLGOO Ray

Fiar-od discuss the project with Sagada

Vice-Mayor Ben Capuyan, IPMR Jaime

Dugao, PNP rep and other local officials

and functionaries.

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All Lupons of the 1,175 barangays were already organized and functional by 1st

quarter of 2014.

For the Barangay Human Rights Action Center, a total of 896 barangays or 76.25

percent have functional BHRACs. Below are the details.

Province/HUC Total no. of Barangays

No. of Barangays with BHRACs

Percentage

Abra 303 204 67.33

Apayao 133 133 100

Baguio 128 128 100 Benguet 140 36 27.72

Ifugao 175 175 100

Kalinga 152 76 50

Mt. Province 144 144 100

Total 1175 896 76.25

Pillar 3: PAMANA-DILG Fund

PAMANA-DILG 2012

Eight projects were completed as of 1st semester 2014 bringing to a total of 21

projects or 100 percent completed under PAMANA-DILG 2012.

PAMANA-DILG 2012: Summary of Project Implementation

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Completed projects as of 1st Quarter 2014

1. Improvement of Katalbawan Irrigation System in DALUPA, PASIL, KALINGA

2. Construction of Dangla Footbridge in CAGALUAN, PASIL, KALINGA

3. Construction of Crib Wall along Cagaluan (Lutut Section) in CAGALUAN, PASIL,

KALINGA

4. Improvement of Cagaluan Irrigation Canal in CAGALUAN, PASIL, KALINGA

5. Improvement of Cal-owan FMR in Balbalan, KALINGA

6. Improvement and Construction of Tatakkan- Guimuyo FMR in Tanudan, KALINGA

Completed projects as of 2nd Quarter 2014

7. Dagi-Magdgad Foot bridge rehab in Balbalan, KALINGA

8. Agro-Forestry Livelihood Project in Tinglayan, KALINGA

PAMANA 2013

There are six completed projects under PAMANA 2013 amounting to PhP 85M.

Seven are still on-going. Below is the list of completed projects.

Completed Project Project Cost

Completed 1st Quarter 2014

1. Cabiten-Kamantakki Rd. in Mankayan, Benguet 8.0 M

2. Improvement of Sta. Maria- Balluyan- Malayugan Road, in Flora, Apayao (1.7 Km road opening and gravelling connecting to Lasam, Cagayan and improvement of both approaches)

6.0 M

Completed 2nd Quarter 2014 3. Concreting of Allaguia Rd. from Pinukpuk to Balbalan in Kalinga 20.0 M

4.Road improvement of Bontoc-Besao Rd. (16 Kms) in Mt. Province 20.0 M

5. Improvement of Poblacion Market Marat Rd., Paracelis, Mt. Province 7.0 M

6. Opening of Buneg-Pacqued Rd., Lacub, Abra 24.0 M

TOTAL 85.0 M

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Provision of Potable Water Supply

SALINTUBIG 2012

There are two completed projects for the period 1st sem 2014 bringing to a total

of 13 or 100 percent SALINTUBIG 2012 projects completed.

SALINTUBIG 2012

Waterless Barangays

1. Construction of Water Supply System in Nayon, Lamut, Ifugao

Waterless RHUs

2. Tinglayan RHU in Kalinga Note: All other 11 SALINTUBIG 2012 projects were completed in 2013.

Inauguration and turn over

ceremony – Concreting of

Allaguia Road from

Pinukpuk to Balbalan in

Kalinga last July 18, 2014

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SALINTUBIG 2013 (GPBP)

A total of 85 projects in 19 municipalities in CAR were funded under the

SALINTUBIG 2013 (GPBP), 65 or 76.47 percent of which are already completed by 1st

semester 2014. Twenty projects or 23.52 percent are still on-going. All projects are

regularly monitored by the regional and provincial project monitoring teams.

SALINTUBIG 2014 (GPBP)

A total of 40 projects being implemented in 38 municipalities are all on-going to

date.

Comprehensive Local Integration Program (CLIP)

Orientation-Seminar on CLIP and Former Rebel Information System (FRIS) for

Luzon Cluster was held June 30-July 2, 2014 at Angeles Pampanga. The Regional and

Provincial Focal Persons, Regional Accountants, PNP and PSWDO participated in the

activity. In that activity, ten former rebels were targeted to be provided with financial

subsidy – three from Abra Province and seven from Kalinga Province.

Localization of National Comprehensive Juvenile Intervention Program(CJIP)

Tap stand and water tank of the water

system in Nayon, Lamut, Ifugao

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The program orientation on CJIP which was held at Tacloban City on September

19-20, 2013. La Trinidad Vice-Mayor Romeo Salda and staff, and LGOO VI Bable Adnol

of DILG-CAR participated in the training event.

This region continuously provides technical assistance through coaching and

facilitating the target-municipality – La Trinidad, Benguet.

As for Bangued, Abra, which is a non-target LGU, orientation on NCJIP was held

last June 26-27, 2014 at Bangued.

Localization of Magna Carta for Women

DILG-CAR hosted the Luzon Cluster last May 27-29, 2014 in which participants of

this activity were the RFPs and PFPs of GAD and GPB Prov’l Focal Person of DILG Regions

I, II, III and CAR.

This level has been monitoring the compliance of LGUs to the Magna Carta for

Women. While monitoring efforts shall be done until the end of the year, it was found

out that most municipalities have formulated their GAD Plan. Provinces of Apayao and

Mt. Province have likewise formulated their GAD Plans, as well as Baguio City.

Province Municipalities

Abra (13) Bangued, Bucay, Lacub, Lagangilang, Luba, Pidigan, Pilar, Sallapadan, San Isidro, San Juan, San Quintin, Tubo, Villaviciosa

Apayao (5) Calanasan, Flora, Luna, Pudtol, Santa Marcela

The participants and resource speakers

during the orientation on NCJIP held at

Bangued, Abra last June 26-27, 2014

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Benguet (7) Atok, Bakun, Bokod, Itogon, Mankayan, Tuba, Tublay Ifugao (11) All 11 Municipalities

Kalinga (4) Balbalan, Lubuagan, Pasil, Pinukpuk

Mt. Province (5) Bauko, Besao, Sadanga, Natonin, Tadian

OUTCOME 4: ACCOUNTABLE, TRANSPARENT, PARTICIPATIVE AND EFFECTIVE LOCAL

GOVERNANCE

Performance Challenge Fund

Except for the Province of Benguet, all five provinces, Tabuk City, and 40 municipalities in the region were already provided with the 2013 PCF subsidy.

As of April 12, 2014, Tublay have already completed the improvement of the Tublay

School of Home Industries (TSHI) Extension ground in Benguet, the first project funded under the 2013 Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) to be completed.

All project proposals were reviewed and all projects are closely monitored by project

monitoring teams at the provincial and regional levels.

Full Disclosure Policy (FDP)

Monitoring compliance to the FDP continue at all levels. Posting of all necessary documents at three conspicuous places (3CPs) and at the FDPP portal is 100 percent for provinces, 100 percent for cities, and 84 percent for municipalities or 63 out of the 75 municipalities.

LGUs Posting at 3 CPs Posting at the FDPP

Number Percent Number Percent

Provinces 6 100 6 100

Project inspection at Tublay,Benguet.

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Cities 2 100 2 100 Municipalities 69 92 63 84

Barangay Compliance to FDP. As of 1st semester, a total of 483 barangays have

posted all eight required documents at three conspicuous places.

Seal of Good Local

Governance (SGLG)

All timelines for SGLG were behind schedule and assessments were done June

2014 due to the delay in the release of Final Guidelines. But nonetheless, all LGUs of

CAR were assessed by the RAT by the end of June 2014. Uploading of SGLG

Documentation Reports and encoding into the LGPMS Online DCF is on-going.

Lupon Tagapamayapa Incentive Awards (LTIA)

Province/ Total No. of Barangays

Number Percent

Abra (303) 37 12.21

Apayao (133) 133 100

Baguio (128) --- --

Benguet (140) 82 58.57

Ifugao (175) 95 54.29 Kalinga (152) 3 1.97

Mt. Province (144) 133 92.36

TOTAL 483 41.10

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Regional, Provincial and City Awards Committee were all activated. Assessment

of nominees for each category was conducted up to the Regional level. Regional nominees were submitted to BLGS last April 14, 2014

Volunteer Program

On March 14, 2014, the region has oriented ALL six provinces, two cities and 175 municipalities of CAR.

All 77 target LGUs (2 Cities and 75 Municipalities) of CAR have established

their Volunteer Citizen’s Desk for the 1st semester of 2014. Likewise, 2 provinces namely Apayao and Mt. Province also established their own Volunteer Citizens’ Desk.

OUTCOME: STRENGTHENED INTERNAL ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY Improvement of IT Services All DILG field offices underwent the Training workshop on Online Reporting with Cloud Computing and LGA Web-based M &E System

Department –wide Communication and Advocacy

Training on online

reporting with

Cloud Computing

and LGA web-

based M&E System

at the different

DILG-Provincial

Offices

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A regional communication plan has been crafted although PACS have yet to release the Department communication plan. As of 1st semester, four issues of the regional newsletter was released: December 2013 issue, Jan-Feb issue, March issue, and April – May issue. The 2013 Annual report was also published in June.

Local Governance Regional Resource Center The LGRRC have acquired 14 books for the 1st semester. Meetings are done by consortiums. The Regional WATSAN Hub has conducted two meeting this semester. Competency Build-up of Officers and Staff Nineteen (19) out of the 21 LGOO II/III trainees who underwent the 48th Batch LGOO Induction Training graduated last May. The top 1, 2 and 7 were garnered by CAR. Repair, Rehabilitation and Improvement of DILG-CAR Regional Office Phase I was accomplished first semester and further improvements is scheduled anytime this 2nd semester. III. REGIONAL / PROVINCIAL COMMITMENTS

REGIONAL OFFICE COMMITMENT

Commitment (Tatak) 2014 Targets

Accomplishment

(As of June 15,

2014)

2nd Sem Targets

3rd

Qtr 4th

Qtr

Tatak Good

Governance

• 100% of C/M have

streamlined BPLS

2 – Cities

72 - Muns

3 Muns

• 50% of P/C/M are

SGLG passers

Cannot be

ascertained as of

June 15, 2014 as

assessment /

validation by RATs

is still on-going

SGLG passers

depend upon the

national

validation results.

• 50% of Brgys have

adopted the BGPMS

71% of 1,175

barangays

29%

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DILG-APAYAO COMMITMENT

Commitment (Tatak) 2014 Targets Accomplishment

(As of June 15, 2014)

2nd

Sem Targets

3rd

Qtr 4th

Qtr

Tatak Seal of Barangay Good Housekeeping (Excellence Confernment to Barangays on Good Governance)

1) 20% Barangay FDP

100% of 133 barangays posted their brgy FDP

2) 20% BGPMS

100% of the 133 barangays passed their BGPMS

OTHER TARGETS: 3) 20% of barangays

passed the Seal of Barangay Good Housekeeping

P5M was appropriated by Provincial Government of Apayao as barangay PCF

Awarding of barangay PCF to qualified barangays

Implementation of barangay PCF

DILG-ABRA COMMITMENT

Commitment (Tatak) 2014 Targets Accomplishment

(As of June 15, 2014)

2nd

Sem Targets

3rd

Qtr 4th

Qtr

Tatak SGLG 50% of municipalities and the province are SGLG passers

50 % of municipalities and the province are

possible SGLG Passers

50 % of municipalities and the province are possible SGLG Passers

DILG-BENGUET COMMITMENT

Commitment (Tatak)

2014 Targets Accomplishment (As of June 15, 2014)

2nd Sem Targets

3rd Qtr 4th Qtr

Tatak Disaster-Resilient and Climate Change Adaptive

• 50% of municipalities have formulated and are implementing DRRM & CCA Plans

-Municipalities (w/ DRRM Plan): 11/13 (w/o DRMM Plan: Kabayan & Kibungan)

2/13 (Kabayan & Kibungan)

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• 50% of municipalities are capacitated and have developed LCCAP

-Municipalities (w/ CCA Plan): 2/13 (w/ LCCA Plan: Tuba & Tublay)

11/13 (Atok, Bakun, Bokod, Buguias, Itogon, Kabayan, Kapangan, Kibungan, La Trinidad, Mankayan & Sablan)

DILG-IFUGAO COMMITMENT

Commitment (Tatak)

2014 Targets Accomplishment

(As of June 15, 2014)

2nd

Sem Targets

3rd

Qtr 4th

Qtr

Business-Friendly and Competitive LGU

4 municipalities (Banawe, Lamut, Lagawe, Kiangan) have: - Streamlined regulatory

services

Banaue, Lagawe, Lamut, Kiangan

- Formulated/ updated LIIC, LRC, Business Plan

Banaue, Lagawe, Lamut, Kiangan

- Updated Schedule of Market Values

Lagawe Banaue & Lamut Kiangan

Formulated/ updated local policies

Banaue, Lagawe, Lamut, Kiangan

DILG-KALINGA COMMITMENT

Commitment (Tatak)

2014 Targets Accomplishment

(As of June 15, 2014)

2nd

Sem Targets

3rd

Qtr 4th

Qtr

Conflict-Sensitive Friendly LGU

Tabuk City

Institutionalized "Matagoan Bodong Council“in Tabuk City as a way to settle disputes among tribes composed of a representative of all tribal leaders/elders living in Tabuk City.

Lubuagan, Pasil, Tinglayan

Tinglayan, Pinukpuk

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Balbalan, Pinukpuk, Lubuagan, Pasil, Tinglayan

Other Targets

•50% of LGUs have set up mediation and healing mechanism

Coordinated with the Apostolic Vicariate of Tabuk City for victims of crimes and tribal conflict for healing and mediation.

DILG-MT PROVINCE COMMITMENT

Commitment (Tatak)

2014 Targets Accomplishment

(As of June 15, 2014)

2nd

Sem Targets

3rd

Qtr 4th

Qtr

IP/Community Participation in Local Governance

70% of all municipalities , 1 Province, 144

Barangays

1 province, 10 municipalities, 130 Barangays

All municipalities All municipalities

50% of P/M SGLG Passers

(No SGLG results yet)

30% of the Municipalities

have organized IPOs

30% of the Municipalities have organized IPOs

(Sagada, Barlig, Sabangan)

50% of all disputes are settled amicably thru indigenous systems

ongoing

Report to be submitted

Organization of Indigenous People’s Organizations

Report on organized IPOs submitted to RO

IV. DEMAND-DRIVEN PROJECTS / ACTIVITIES

Support to Regional Autonomy through IEC (funded by RDC-CAR)

Thirty-eight municipalities and the Tabuk City have conducted IEC on

regional autonomy this semester.

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Community-based Monitoring System

DILG-CAR continues to provide technical assistance to requesting local

governments in the conduct of their CBMS. At least 51 LGUs were assisted this first

semester.